The White House's Office of Civic Engagement is focusing on building social ties among people. "We live in a culture right now that if you have enough electrons in the bank or linen bills in your wallet, you can pay for the things that networks normally would give you," he says. The U.S. doesn't use our greatest place to like bring people together to talk directly with each other,. That seems like a lost opportunity to me.
On this episode, Nate is joined by Marty Kearns, a civic organizer and networking specialist. He and Marty discuss why both networks and communities will be critical to the coming challenges we face. How will the social ties we form now influence the outcome of power, peace and new social organization? How can we organize ourselves in order to best meet the future that is coming?
About Marty Kearns:Marty Kearns is the Executive Director of Netcentric Campaigns, leading product design, project oversight, evaluation, development of advocacy network theory and strategic business planning. Prior to that Marty developed communication tools with Green Media Toolshed to help environmental activists. He has also created and organized numerous mass volunteer projects from data collection to wildlife preservation.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/41-marty-kearns